elbow chair
See also: elbowchair and elbow-chair
English
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Noun
elbow chair (plural elbow chairs)
- A chair with long armrests for the elbows.
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, II:
- she was forc'd to go through the whole Operation of a Flux in an old Elbow-Chair which was plac'd just under the Jack, in the Kitchin.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, XII:
- Miss Vernon, seating herself majestically in a huge elbow-chair in the library, like a judge about to hear a cause of importance, signed to me to take a chair opposite to her [...].
- 2011, Alan Bennett, "Baffled at a Bookcase", London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:
- The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell.
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, II: